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  2. From: aschen@ix.netcom.com (Sean Aschen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:02:49 GMT
  6. Organization: Netcom
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  8. References: <4icpp9$7hr@barad-dur.nas.com> <4imqe4$cj3@ping1.ping.be> <1996Mar23.224853.116513@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <4j52hn$ikb@news.ios.com> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960403112207.17337H-100000@bud.cc.swin.edu.au> <3164622D.6BC8982@dark.mountain.stronghold>
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  10. X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Apr 11  8:05:44 PM CDT 1996
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  12.  
  13. On Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:58:37 -0600, "Mr. Wizard"
  14. <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold> wrote:
  15.  
  16. >John Joseph Newbigin wrote:
  17. >
  18. >>  Now I would rather use BASIC than Pascal.  That must mean
  19. >> BASIC is not dieing either?
  20. >>  Newbs
  21. >
  22. >Definitely not. For example, PowerBasic is a full-featured 
  23. >programming language. It can be used to write "real" applications.
  24. >
  25. Don't know about PowerBasic, but Visual Basic is a piece of shit.
  26.  
  27. People who put their computer setup in their signiture have problems.
  28.